You Can’t Drown in the Dead Sea
In this episode, Dr Brad Miller talks about why you can’t drown in the Dead Sea. He will tell reasons and facts supporting that the Red Sea is safe to swim and why it called as “Dead Sea.”
Dr Brad Miller mentioned that don’t be afraid of the name of the Dead Sea. Though it sounds dead, it’s a popular tourist destination, and tourists are encouraged to swim in it because it is a health treatment.
In a recent interview with David Greene, Dr Brad Miller couldn’t help but think about when he talks about going back to Israel, going to Israel, and going deeper into his roots and looking for the search for his soul.
Dr Brad Miller talks about how the waters were devoid of all life forms, whether plants or living creatures. So, there’s no fear of sharks, and most tourists enjoy a mineral-rich swim like mud treatments and salt baths, leading to many health benefits.
Dr Brad Miller tells the story of when he and his wife went on their pilgrimage to Israel, and to have to see the sights and have our encounters spiritually and in the geography and in everything that goes around in the Holy Land, to connect up with our Judeo-Christian roots.
He also says that if you choose to see it this way, there is life even death. In the Judeo-Christian way of thinking, even in death, there is life.
Episode 253 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast is a must-listen for anyone who wants to experience a magical place like the Dead Sea. “The Beyond Adversity Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is published weekly with the mission of helping people “Grow Through What They Go Through” as they navigate adversity and discover their promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose.
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Transcript
Hello good people and welcome to the Beyond add adversity podcast with Dr. Brad Miller.
Dr. Brad Miller:pleasure and a privilege to have you with me here today
Dr. Brad Miller:as we continue in our process of helping to give a message of hope
Dr. Brad Miller:and resilience and to help you to overcome adversity in your life
Dr. Brad Miller:to achieve your life, peace and prosperity and purpose.
Dr. Brad Miller:As always, I'm coming to you today from the loft studios just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. Brad Miller:It's a drainie Risley drizzly February day.
Dr. Brad Miller:And we're coming to you with a message of hope and resilience.
Dr. Brad Miller:Here on episode number 253 of our podcasts today we're going to talk about
Dr. Brad Miller:we're talking about you can't drown in the Red Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:Now, let me share this with you here today.
Dr. Brad Miller:We this is this week here in the middle of February,
Dr. Brad Miller:we were able to have a great guest with us and episode 251 and 252.
Dr. Brad Miller:of beyond that diversity. His name is David Green, a, he's a Jewish rabbi.
Dr. Brad Miller:And his we talked for addicts at length over those two episodes
Dr. Brad Miller:about about his book, and about his life
Dr. Brad Miller:and about the practices and principles of his life
Dr. Brad Miller:having to do with his book, pictures of the soul going deep.
Dr. Brad Miller:And he talks there about how you can pre need to remove distractions and tune into your soul.
Dr. Brad Miller:And when the parts of his story that's important is that he had to remove himself from some distractions in his life,
Dr. Brad Miller:living in the Los Angeles area be a part of the music industry.
Dr. Brad Miller:And he had to take a retreat and go to Israel,
Dr. Brad Miller:go to Israel to find himself and to get back to his Judaic roots.
Dr. Brad Miller:And in his case, it led him eventually, to become a much more engaged, practicing Jew
Dr. Brad Miller:and eventually become a rabbi, the fascinating story, I'd invite you to go back to episode number 251 and 252.
Dr. Brad Miller:To find out more about David Greene, and the real you project.
Dr. Brad Miller:Today, I want to talk about some reflections that when my conversation with David made me think about
Dr. Brad Miller:I couldn't help but think about when he talks about going back to Israel going to Israel
Dr. Brad Miller:and to to go deeper into his roots and to go look for the search for his soul.
Dr. Brad Miller:I was reminded that 10 years ago, this very month, and I'm recording this in February of 2023.
Dr. Brad Miller:And in February of 2013, my wife and I went our own pilgrimage to Israel
Dr. Brad Miller:and to have to see the sights to be sure but also to have our own encounters spiritually
Dr. Brad Miller:and in the geography and in everything that goes around
Dr. Brad Miller:in the Holy Land to connect up with our Judeo Christian roots.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it was an important experience for me a bit of a spiritual pilgrimage for myself as well.
Dr. Brad Miller:And one of the things I was reminded about was effective picture,
Dr. Brad Miller:how those pictures pop up on your, on your picture feed from things in the past how the Europe
Dr. Brad Miller:your screens do that or your photo programming, does that pops up,
Dr. Brad Miller:but it popped up on my screen, just last week, a picture of myself in the Dead Sea floating in the Dead Sea covered with mud.
Dr. Brad Miller:Now, let me tell you about that a little bit and how that pertains to
Dr. Brad Miller:our question here today about how you can't drown in the Dead Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:And that's true. That's true.
Dr. Brad Miller:Why would you shoot you see this picture be looking really kind of crazy covered with mud,
Dr. Brad Miller:not really swimming in the Dead Sea, but floating in the Dead Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:Because the solidity, the salt factor of the Dead Sea is so incredibly high.
Dr. Brad Miller:You don't really swim in it. It's not really very conducive to swimming in it. But you get into the water and you float to the top.
Dr. Brad Miller:And in my case, you see my big, big body bobbing up and down on top of the water.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's really looks odd to me because when I go swimming
Dr. Brad Miller:generally I'm not one you know, I don't float like that. I can tell you that. And here's here's the situation.
Dr. Brad Miller:The Dead Sea is what is called in Tor Herrick base on our into Herrick sea because it is a drainage that goes only into the sea and not out.
Dr. Brad Miller:In other words it means the drainage from the surrounding desert to so on goes into what we now know is a Dead Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:But there's no outlet, no river, no streams that go out and take it out to the Mediterranean Ocean for instance.
Dr. Brad Miller:It is kind of stuck. It's a closed environment, or what some people call a terminal environment
Dr. Brad Miller:or there's no drain each out there is only draining Jim but nothing out it so that it causes two or three factors, the solidity, grises, up.
Dr. Brad Miller:And that also means that nothing can live in the Dead Sea. There's virtually no plant life.
Dr. Brad Miller:There's no fish there, there was no wildlife, things like that.
Dr. Brad Miller:And there are some subtle there over history, there has been some settlements there.
Dr. Brad Miller:But they didn't really live off the sea so much as they lived off other things that you know, didn't live off fishing and so on.
Dr. Brad Miller:They lived off other things around the desert, and sometimes they use some of the minerals around the Dead Sea
Dr. Brad Miller:it's a deadly place, you can't really drink the water, you taste it, if you go swimming there, you get the water, you taste it, for sure.
Dr. Brad Miller:And here's the other thing that's kind of interesting about it though, it has other properties, which are interesting.
Dr. Brad Miller:I mentioned about the mud that you put on, he really look weird
Dr. Brad Miller:I gotta say this, they ask you are you given the opportunity to put on this mud bath
Dr. Brad Miller:you cover yourself with mud, head to toe, if you wish, with this slimy, gooey, sticky mud, that they have these big vats there
Dr. Brad Miller:and you cover yourself or you have someone helped throw it on your My wife, I'll be with that.
Dr. Brad Miller:And we did that we got in the water, you kind of wash it off. And the idea is this mud is so full of minerals.
Dr. Brad Miller:And other good things in the salt level are so good. It is supposed to be healthy for you.
Dr. Brad Miller:And also make you look good. it's using cosmetics and things of that nature.
Dr. Brad Miller:So you go into the lake, or go into the Dead Sea with an idea that it's dead, but you're gonna float, and you're supposed to look good.
Dr. Brad Miller:It's a kind of there's some dichotomies here, which are kind of weird,
Dr. Brad Miller:you see your sort of cover your mud, and it just to revive you and make you feel beautiful.
Dr. Brad Miller:Even in the midst of this place, it's dead.
Dr. Brad Miller:In fact, I heard somebody say something to the effect there while
Dr. Brad Miller:we were swimming and things like that you just you can't drown in the Dead Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's true. Even if you wanted to drown yourself or be drowned, it's hard to do because you Bob to the surface
Dr. Brad Miller:you're not going to sink, you are going to float. Back in the 90s, there is even a movie called Hope Floats.
Dr. Brad Miller:Maybe you remember that movie, I think it had Sandra Bullock in it. And it's basically I think she was a beauty queen who was on her luck and trying to find a new way of life.
Dr. Brad Miller:And so rom com. But in the idea, it's based on the phrase I do sometimes about Hope Floats,
Dr. Brad Miller:that means that whatever hardships you have,
Dr. Brad Miller:whatever difficulties you have you if you choose to can rise above it, you've heard that phrase, rise above your hardships.
Dr. Brad Miller:And understand that you in your life do not have to choose to be closed.
Dr. Brad Miller:Here's the deal, everybody, the Dead Sea is closed and the words only things go in, but don't come out.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's only dead because it doesn't share it goes it doesn't go go out. But even the midst of that some good things can happen.
Dr. Brad Miller:What I mean by that is what are you doing with your life right now are when bad things happen? Are you closed off?
Dr. Brad Miller:Do you just go and pull the covers over your head if something bad happens? Or do you share with others?
Dr. Brad Miller:Are you trying to serve others in some way or another?
Dr. Brad Miller:That's what I want you to think about here today.
Dr. Brad Miller:What you can do in Israel, and in Jordan, where the Dead Sea is that
Dr. Brad Miller:they've actually the people who live there have taken the Dead Sea. And it's now a tourist area.
Dr. Brad Miller:And the various companies now sell the mud there and other things as cosmetics and they make the best of what the situation is.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's actually a very lucrative thing to do in many ways.
Dr. Brad Miller:What's going on in your life that you could change things around?
Dr. Brad Miller:Here's the thing, when you go, even in death, if you choose to see it this way, even in death, there is life.
Dr. Brad Miller:In the Judeo Christian way of thinking, even in death, there is life.
Dr. Brad Miller:One of the things that my wife and I were able to do when we went to Israel is we were not only able to see the Dead Sea
Dr. Brad Miller:and see what that was about in the float there.
Dr. Brad Miller:But we're also able to go to another body of water where we didn't float on the top.
Dr. Brad Miller:In fact, we went underwater. It was the Jordan River. And we're able to have our baptisms renewed at the Jordan River.
Dr. Brad Miller:And going into the river to be baptized means that you the whole thing about baptism.
Dr. Brad Miller:And I come to you from the perspective as a retired pastor friends, and the Christian tradition is that you go under the water and death
Dr. Brad Miller:So you come out of the water in New Life, and you are baptized in
Dr. Brad Miller:this in spirit and in truth to Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.
Dr. Brad Miller:What that means everybody is that death no longer has dominion over you, you are now a child of God.
Dr. Brad Miller:So you can choose to say to things that way.
Dr. Brad Miller:And for those of us who believe this way we believe that debt didn't eat has no dominion over us, so we don't stay dead.
Dr. Brad Miller:We live in hope. We live in grace, we live in love, we live in the real possibilities.
Dr. Brad Miller:That's hard to do, isn't it sometimes if we're having a tough time, if we were in throes of depression,
Dr. Brad Miller:or maybe we lost our job, or they're going through a divorce or some other breakup,
Dr. Brad Miller:or maybe we've, we've happened, a disaster, financially bankruptcy or something. Or maybe we've had our own death in the family.
Dr. Brad Miller:Or maybe we have to face our own demise in some way.
Dr. Brad Miller:couple thoughts have come my way, this this week, two, I want to reflect with you.
Dr. Brad Miller:One of them is that I received a word not too long ago, just last couple of weeks, that I have cancer.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's a serious enough nature that if I don't do something about it, it will take my life and a few years, that got my attention.
Dr. Brad Miller:So what are going to do about it, I think I'm going to it looks like I'll be having surgery enter to take take some action regarding my cancer.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that's what I'm going to do. I could stay and just give up
Dr. Brad Miller:and throw the towel, or I could do something about it.
Dr. Brad Miller:And I've chosen to to do something about it.
Dr. Brad Miller:The bad things do happen to evil to good people.
Dr. Brad Miller:And sometimes it's really hard to handle.
Dr. Brad Miller:And the church where I attended, we had a real tragedy here recently,
Dr. Brad Miller:a two year old child got sick with what his parents thought was just a kind of a bad cold.
Dr. Brad Miller:And two weeks later, the child passed away from the advancement of a unusual disease
Dr. Brad Miller:and devastated this young family and just devastated them.
Dr. Brad Miller:And the church, though responded in so many ways that were so wonderful and unique.
Dr. Brad Miller:And here's the you know, even out of death, a horrible and there's not much worse than the death of a child, a two year old.
Dr. Brad Miller:I can relate I have a two year old granddaughter, I can't imagine what it'd be like to be without her.
Dr. Brad Miller:But in this case, in this this this case, the church surrounded the family
Dr. Brad Miller:served him in so many ways and became a real maturing moment for the church.
Dr. Brad Miller:The church is only a couple of years old.
Dr. Brad Miller:And they are using that moment they on and people are developing new
Dr. Brad Miller:and a really what I would call abiding friendships or relationships
Dr. Brad Miller:with body where you come alongside somebody and you do life together.
Dr. Brad Miller:They are doing that. And it is a powerful thing to see. It's tragic.
Dr. Brad Miller:It's terrible. It's a horrible thing that has happened to this family.
Dr. Brad Miller:And I'm but I'm so glad that the church family has surrounded them.
Dr. Brad Miller:And good things are happening now.
Dr. Brad Miller:And we'll see where that goes. It doesn't mean it's not tragic.
Dr. Brad Miller:But it means you can do can choose to see how you can choose a approach of hope
Dr. Brad Miller:if you choose to the Dead Sea could be just a place of complete lostness.
Dr. Brad Miller:But if you go there, there's kind of there's a there's a sense of community
Dr. Brad Miller:the communities have been there made there was there was a communities of faith that were there.
Dr. Brad Miller:Maybe you've heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were the which were the vestiges of the early communities of faith.
Dr. Brad Miller:They were I went to where they were at is just within sight of the Dead Sea and some caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
Dr. Brad Miller:They were evidence of the early faith communities. So I want to encourage you to do a couple things.
Dr. Brad Miller:One of them is to do we learned some of this from David Greene to go on your own pilgrimage away from distraction
Dr. Brad Miller:to go someplace babies just for a few minutes, or maybe an hour or two and just think about what is a value to your life.
Dr. Brad Miller:You know and appreciate that value.
Dr. Brad Miller:Maybe it's your spouse, maybe it's your kids, maybe it's your job.
Dr. Brad Miller:Maybe it's you know, something else that you're grateful for. And you can play some hope in those good things.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that you if you have a connection to what is good in your life, when things go bad and go south
Dr. Brad Miller:when you have adversity and they will. You got to get the hang on to Okay.
Dr. Brad Miller:The other piece I would invite you to tune in to your own soul to your own deeper life.
Dr. Brad Miller:And that's when you when when your person goes to the Holy Land on a pilgrimage.
Dr. Brad Miller:That's one of the things you need to do a little bit you think about the place of God in your life.
Dr. Brad Miller:That's what David Green did to reconnect with his Judaic lineage.
Dr. Brad Miller:It's what I did with my wife going to connect it with our Judeo Christian lineage to be what Jesus was at
Dr. Brad Miller:to be renew our Babs Because of the Jordan River and to float in the Dead Sea,
Dr. Brad Miller:which was a completely unexpected thing, you can't it's, it's hard to drown in the Dead Sea.
Dr. Brad Miller:If you choose to see it that way.
Dr. Brad Miller:And to see do those things, remover distraction, tune into your soul, and then choose to see things.
Dr. Brad Miller:And the other piece of this is to be in community.
Dr. Brad Miller:To be a community I'm I choose to be in community with you, for instance
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Dr. Brad Miller:way helps you develop your personal life plan help you get through tough times get through the wilderness experience
Dr. Brad Miller:get through your dead sea experience and see what floats what floats for you.
Dr. Brad Miller:Now, I also want to share with you this I'm working out something new
Dr. Brad Miller:and you may want to check it check that out, given this situation I had with my own cancer and decided to do something about it
Dr. Brad Miller:and take action to do to see the hopeful and the possibility part
Dr. Brad Miller:I'm actually going to be starting a new podcast will be
Dr. Brad Miller:it will be an addendum to what we do here, Dr. Brad Miller, it's called Drop Dead Alive
Dr. Brad Miller:I'd be launching probably around Easter of 2023.
Dr. Brad Miller:And what I want to share about that is just to be particularly divided, those people want to have longevity and love and laughter in their life.
Dr. Brad Miller:And we're going to talk about some of the things having to do with having a long, good, healthy, vital life,
Dr. Brad Miller:and living well to the very end, whether the very end of your life is today
Dr. Brad Miller:or 100 years from now, to be strong and courageous, and fulfill to the end.
Dr. Brad Miller:And to have a lot of laughter in your life.
Dr. Brad Miller:That I'm gonna we're gonna be talking to medical professionals and mental health people
Dr. Brad Miller:and comedians and others are going to talk about laughter in your life.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that's going to be a drop dead alive.
Dr. Brad Miller:Right now you can go to drop dead alive.com We've got a video up there
Dr. Brad Miller:and a way that you can get on our list to be one of some of the first people who get that podcast
Dr. Brad Miller:where we talk to people who have gone through their own events, adversities, particularly with cancer
Dr. Brad Miller:and got through that, and are choosing to live life to the fullest hope that you'll join me over there.
Dr. Brad Miller:And here on the here and beyond adversity.
Dr. Brad Miller:We're taking a track now where we talk to these experts who have gone through their own adversity in their life.
Dr. Brad Miller:You heard David Green this week, talk about his life and music and getting through that, and then discovering his true calling in life,
Dr. Brad Miller:in his in music, and His Church, His Judaic of roots.
Dr. Brad Miller:And to search for the soul. I got that same calling as well.
Dr. Brad Miller:I want to serve you I'm here about helping people to navigate adversity,
Dr. Brad Miller:to get through adversity to achieve your life of peace and prosperity, and purpose.
Dr. Brad Miller:And I have my own plan in my own way to help do that are called the x plan. The AC T 's Plan A is for action
Dr. Brad Miller:to see is to connect with the higher power that your spiritual life.
Dr. Brad Miller:The T is to think with discipline. That's the actual process.
Dr. Brad Miller:And the S is to serve others with love.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it's what I want to do with you.
Dr. Brad Miller:I want to serve you with love and know that I love you and I'm here to serve you.
Dr. Brad Miller:You can reach out to me at Dr. Brad miller.com and I will respond to you.
Dr. Brad Miller:I'm here to be serving to you and we'll be back next time around.
Dr. Brad Miller:Here are our next episodes of the of the beyond diversity podcast to serve you
Dr. Brad Miller:with a message which will help you to grow through what you go through.
Dr. Brad Miller:Until next time, friends.
Dr. Brad Miller:This is Dr. Brad Miller. And I want to encourage you to always do all the good that you can